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Humans try their best to be above others, to be someone special, outstanding – but all of this is politics. And from my point of view, only mediocre people are interested in it. Intelligent people are engaged in more important things. The mind cannot waste itself on fighting against third-rate, ugly politics, dirty politics. Only third-rate people become presidents, prime ministers. An intelligent person will not waste energy on this desert, which leads nowhere and in which there is not even an oasis.
Thus, the instinctive level of politics is simply "might makes right" – the law of the jungle. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mussolini, Bonaparte, Alexander, Tamerlane – all these people are more like wolves than human beings. If we want to have true humanity in the world, we must completely erase the names of these people from history. We must forget that these people ever existed; they were a nightmare. But, strangely enough, all of history is full of the names of these people. What is history? Just clippings from the newspapers of ancient times. If you go and help someone, no newspaper will write a report about it; if you go and kill someone, all the newspapers will be full of it. And what is your history, if not these people who stood in everyone's way and left wounds in human consciousness? And this is what you call history? There is nothing but garbage in your minds.
It is very strange that the true flowers of the mind are not even mentioned. It was so difficult for me to find out anything about these people. I searched in many libraries, trying to learn more about these people who were the real creators! They laid the foundations. But we only know one side of the world – the world in which might makes right. Then the second level: might makes right. The one who is right is stronger.
The mind believes in finding the right. There is no need to fight with swords and bombs and kill each other, because force cannot prove anyone's rightness. What do you think, if Muhammad Ali went into the ring against Gautama Buddha... of course, he would win in the first round. There would be no need for a second round; the first would be enough; poor Buddha would become a patty! And, seeing this situation, he himself would start counting: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. He will not wait for the referee to start counting. And he will not get up from the floor; he will count to ten, lying on the floor. He will say: "It's all over with me – you are the winner." But force does not prove rightness – it is quite appropriate in the world of animals and in the world of instinct. The mind changes everything: "The one who is right is stronger," and rightness must be determined by reason, logic, judgment, arguments…
Osho
Thus, the instinctive level of politics is simply "might makes right" – the law of the jungle. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mussolini, Bonaparte, Alexander, Tamerlane – all these people are more like wolves than human beings. If we want to have true humanity in the world, we must completely erase the names of these people from history. We must forget that these people ever existed; they were a nightmare. But, strangely enough, all of history is full of the names of these people. What is history? Just clippings from the newspapers of ancient times. If you go and help someone, no newspaper will write a report about it; if you go and kill someone, all the newspapers will be full of it. And what is your history, if not these people who stood in everyone's way and left wounds in human consciousness? And this is what you call history? There is nothing but garbage in your minds.
It is very strange that the true flowers of the mind are not even mentioned. It was so difficult for me to find out anything about these people. I searched in many libraries, trying to learn more about these people who were the real creators! They laid the foundations. But we only know one side of the world – the world in which might makes right. Then the second level: might makes right. The one who is right is stronger.
The mind believes in finding the right. There is no need to fight with swords and bombs and kill each other, because force cannot prove anyone's rightness. What do you think, if Muhammad Ali went into the ring against Gautama Buddha... of course, he would win in the first round. There would be no need for a second round; the first would be enough; poor Buddha would become a patty! And, seeing this situation, he himself would start counting: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. He will not wait for the referee to start counting. And he will not get up from the floor; he will count to ten, lying on the floor. He will say: "It's all over with me – you are the winner." But force does not prove rightness – it is quite appropriate in the world of animals and in the world of instinct. The mind changes everything: "The one who is right is stronger," and rightness must be determined by reason, logic, judgment, arguments…
Osho